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Post by vya on Apr 3, 2020 21:15:22 GMT 1
Note to Simon Mayo: Lynne Hamilton is not Lynn Anderson. Not at all.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 6, 2020 17:20:37 GMT 1
1/6. Gary Davies and an Anthea Turner who could not be more perky had you dunked her in strong espresso. Apparently we start with Selina. Turns out to be Sinitta, in very short shorts. The song, as one might expect, has scraped through the bottom of the barrel and is heading to the Earth's core at a scary rapidity. I really can't be doing with this.
Next up is Natalie Cole. God almighty.
Charts. Vixen in the top 40, I don't remember that. The Neff, lol.
Madonna. "Express Yourself". There's a touch of the housey-housey in this. It is a lot better than Ms Ciccione's usual standard, although that's not saying much. Am I alone in thinking Madonna is not that sexy? That she's the sort of person the media assume everyone must think is a hottie so promote her accordingly? Turner proving the point in her introduction? Q.v. Sarah Jessica Parker. Then again, I'd've crawled over Monroe to get to Ingrid Bergman. And, jeez, we've not long had Wendy James. Now THAT is raw lust.
Anyhoo. Double Trouble up from 38 to 20. Gets them on TOTP. They've sped up "Liquidator". This is jolly good fun. Quite like this.
WASP. Girl in the video is HAWT. Charts and Neneh Cherry. She is way, way, way more attractive than Madonna and doesn't need to look like a whore to achieve that. Natural class to her.
Cyndi Lauper. Turner gives her an introduction as if she is basically Madness channelling the Three Stooges, when "I Drove All Night" is almost noir. A really, really good single, that allows her to give her voice, rather than an image, a proper airing. Oh clucking bell, they cut it off VERY early.
Fuzzbox. Well, this is all right. They never took themselves too seriously. Love the shapes Jo is pulling. I wonder if they could crack America? They've got the look, the licks, the fun, maybe they need a bit more aggression. If Debbie "gee whiz" Gibson can make it, maybe a bit of British snark can get over.
Playout is GnR. Two metal bands on the same episode? Oh God. Donovan has a new single out.
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Post by vya on Apr 7, 2020 13:07:20 GMT 1
Living In A Box - a band who left no legacy whatsoever and who seem to have disappeared from memory. Not without reason, although they did have a rather nice mellow ballad out that wasn't a hit at the very end of the year.
"Be With You": I can't imagine that even the Bangles themslelves would describe this as among their finest (or most characteristic) numbers, (mind you, their recent enormous hit neither), but it's crisp and fresh and rather lovely - just the thing for the end of springtime.
And "In A Lifetime", four years old already, is really a cut above the rest. Cutting back and forth from the studio (Clannad miming) to the video (Bono singing) is, erm, innovative of the ToTP producers.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 7, 2020 20:33:43 GMT 1
8/6. Campbell and his stupid tie introduces Transvision Vamp. Wendy looks babelicious, and also slightly damp, like she's just come out of the shower. Perhaps having had sex. Fun song that is redolent of tweepop but it runs out of ideas fairly quickly. Needed more songwriting. Stick a some more verses in there and up the chorus a bit and you've got an epic.
Cliff in at 2 with his hundredth single. Ironic confetti. It's dreadful.
Top 40. The Raw Melody Men are in there. Guns'n'Roses, because if you're on the playout you are guaranteed to be on next week. No matter that the charts are moving quickly, and there are loads of acts that could do with being on, we HAVE to have repeats. Who is writing this stuff? Anyway, this isn't very rock. Queen are harder. And again they give up with the song sharpish and turn it into guitar solos.
Beautiful South. Two lead singers, unusual. Dave looks like Stefan Dennis. You never see them together. Should it not be "Song For WhoMever" though? Rocking the Clarkson look though (blazer and jeans). This is clever. Not HMHB clever, but still a cut above most of the stuff around now.
Breakers. Vixen finally get a bit of a play. Metal band, so guess what the video looks like? Donna Allen, forgettable. New Model Army, sounds pretty good, but we have to have Septics in the way.
Talking of which. Paula Abdul on video. This is not a patch on "Straight Up". Indeed, they may as well have called it "Quick Cash In Before The Bubble Bursts".
D-Mob, this time featuring LRS, whoever that is. Oh, I just can't be bothered with this. It's like a committee churned this out from the last 37 hits of the genre.
Soul II Soul. This is mellow. And there's a Venn diagram on the single cover.
Top 10. We have crap at 10, 7, 6, 4, 3, 2, and 1. Well done, people of Britain, you are clueless ****s.
Playout is Bananarama, because we haven't had enough of the SAWmill. What a pointless record. People who bought this should be sterilizied, really. They're just enabling the industry's recycling of any old sh*te to make a few bob at the expense of genuine creativity. A race to the bottom. This is a musical version of genocide.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 9, 2020 11:56:05 GMT 1
XV/VI. Mark Goodier and Simon Parkin, making his debut on the Pops, albeit because Tribe of Toffs didn't get a play. Or is that later? Anyhoo, the best midriff in pop, as Fuxxboz kicks us off. I particularly love the "true love, ohhh" bits, and that's not because Vixx basically poledances with the mike. I love their attitudes; Vixx seductive, Magz just happy to be there, Jo too cool for school, and Tina thinking she should be in The Runaways. I would kill several nations to be that microphone stand.
REM, who were p*ssed off at being told they had to mime. Surely they had the clout to insist on live performance? At this time they're not even lipsyncing in their videos. Hence the megaphone. This isn't their best. Still amazed that "Stand", which is a perfect pop song, was not a major hit.
Charts. Living In A Box at 39 with a song that got delayed because of Hillsborough. Malcolm McLaren in with something rather wonderful.
Donna Allen. Sounds like there's a voice there, and it's nice that she's got another hit. But it's not for me.
Breakers. Bangles, finally letting Debbie get to sing lead. Given she has been marginalized in some of their earlier hits she finally gets a moment in the spotlight. Literally in the video. Quite fun. Clannad with Boner. What you'd expect.
Double Trouble, see above. Chartamundos. Not that much movement; highest new entry at 30, highest climber at 22.
Cyndi Lauper, which, as Parkin notes, now rhymes with wow-per rather than pauper. She's wearing a Reverse Dickie Davies hairdo. This is goooood.
Back to the studio for Sinitta, who is somehow at no. 4. God almighty, there's a lot I'd give for a night with her. But she'd have to promise not to sing.
Top 10. Soul II Soul up to 3. That's quite a decent rise, perhaps a chart-topper next week, if it can dislodge the dreadful top 2. Playout is Tom Petty, with a song that seems to have very few lyrics. It's about 20 years too late.
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Post by Tom on Apr 9, 2020 22:01:07 GMT 1
It's interesting that earlier in the year many of the artists were performing live (more than usual I'd say) and now that doesn't seem to be happening at all. Soul II Soul also apparently wanted to sing live, along with REM, but weren't allowed to, despite being one of the artists who had performed live before. Wonder what changed.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 10, 2020 0:07:45 GMT 1
Stock Aitken Waterman. Sick to death of their puppets being shown up for the talentless prostitutes they were.
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Post by ManicKangaroo on Apr 10, 2020 0:22:18 GMT 1
I'm sick to death of you spouting your bile
you really need to wind your neck in
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 10, 2020 11:26:33 GMT 1
I think it's fair comment. They're not selling music, they're selling their bodies, hence the endless cover versions. You can see here how they had to bring in other singers to replace Jason Donovan and Big Fun.
Anyway. 22/6. Mayo and Davies in a return to two proper presenters. Living In A Box get on despite having a teensy chart rise (39-37 cannot be that common). Maybe a sop to their label who lost a few bob in having to reschedule this? It is exceedingly yuppie. I get the feeling that they should have been in Paul Smith suits rather than the melange of party hardy duds they have.
Gladys Knight, sans Pips. And a Bond theme in the past tradition. Two of the hottest Bond girls ever. Dalton is shaping up to be a very good Bond, even more sadistic than Connery's.
Charts. M? Stochastic. When they show no. 34 they switch around the artist (Various) and song title. Whizz up to no. 5 and Mayo shows off his film chops by cross-referring to Fellini. Maybe he should get a film show. U2. I quite like videos that eschew lipsync. This is a bit wow. Best U2 recording ever? Certainly since before they hit the stadia. They cut it off short. Bit disrespectful given it is top 5...
Bangles in the studio. Debbie gets a riser as she's on lead. You'd think the success of The Bangles would mean labels would be after all-women bands. There are certainly a good few around. Bridge is the best bit of the song. Maybe they should do an a cappella?
Clannad and Bono. They can turn up, but not Bono? Cheating. I dunno, this is more Fleetwood Mac than Celtic ethereality. Although am I tempting fate? No SAWmill yet.
Highest new entry is Prince. Still no no. 1. This is, frankly, utterly mad. In a good way. I think. Is it a prank he is pulling on the film or on the charts? It's like he's made a Now! into a single. Maybe he wrote five themes and wasn't allowed to use them all, so he just mashed them together.
D Mob. Not aged well.
Beautiful South still going up. Just. 11-8 suggests it will stall next week. Top 10. Soul II Soul get to the top of the charts. Nice to see a proper fresh interesting new act doing their own stuff adding to the store of human achievement.
Playout is 33% of the Three Tenors and Jennifer Rush. This is almost as mad as "Batdance". Is this trying to make a pop star of Domingo or an opera star of Rush? Bit unfair to put her up against him, but she holds her own.
That was the most varied show since the early 80s heyday. Pop, rock, funk, soul, opera, hip-hop. And look whose absence helped make it interesting.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Apr 10, 2020 15:19:47 GMT 1
I'm sick to death of you spouting your bile you really need to wind your neck in Vas Tariner certainly does spout a lot of bile, personally though that’s why I enjoy reading his posts so much. I have a great deal of sympathy with his opinions on Stock / Aitken / Waterman too. Anyway, back to the repeats... I know it’s Top of the Pops usual style to start with the vocals, but really Sweet Child O’Mine is only half the song without that amazing intro. Beautiful South - I remember the 12 year old me being highly entertained by the idea of a song which began “I love you from the bottom...”
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Post by SheriffFatman on Apr 10, 2020 15:43:35 GMT 1
Orange Crush is brilliant, don’t remember it from the time at all.
Highly amused, upon looking up Pink Sunshine by Fuzzbox on Apple Music, to find it’s taken from an album called Look At The Hits On That. Very 80s.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 10, 2020 21:48:33 GMT 1
LATHOT was a compilation album post-breakup. The "contemporary" album from which PS was taken had the equally subtle title Big Bang! (with exclamation mark) and it went top five.
Their only other album (on ex-Prefect/Nightingale Robert Lloyd's Vindaloo label) had the brilliant title Bostin Steve Austin.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 12, 2020 11:23:43 GMT 1
29/6. Anthea Turner, who is still the most upbeat person in the world. Holly Johnson's "Atomic City" which has one brilliant bar and then turns into a rehash of later FTGH. Disappointing.
Highest new entry at 13 is Queen. This is absolutely 100% bog-standard Queen by numbers. Don't see the point in buying this even if you're a Queen fan as you've heard it all before. Indeed, it seems to borrow very heavily from "Boys Of Summer".
Charts. A rare non-move at 39. Living In A Box up from 37-36, another surely rare move. Waterfront go up to 33, don't remember them, they've not been on.
Double Trouble. The crowd is so into this that they have to turn them down.
Donna Allen, see above.
Breakers. Monie Love. Chicago backing, London vocals. Am not enamoured of this. Ah, here are Waterfront. Hm, I see why I don't remember them. This is very self-consciously worthy. Probably go a bundle in the US. Sonia, who is SAWmill, so naturally gets a play whereas Malcolm McLaren doesn't despite having been higher for three weeks. Also gets a lot more on Breakers than the other two.
Highest climber at 20. It's M. Wearing a suit of CDs. Why has this been re-issued? To point up the vapidity of contemporary tastes? M ran the Do It label, whose biggest hits came from Adam & The Ants after the Ants became Bow Wow Wow and Adam had to find new Ants. "There must be thousands of pounds worth of CDs on that suit." Yes, at the prices then, about four of them.
Charts. GnR with something that doesn't even amount to the softest of soft metal, it's barely even country. Dull. London Boys with pretty much a rehash of their debut. One trick ponies.
Charts. Beautiful South get a real kick-up, surprisingly above U2. Prince is still short of a no. 1. Soul II Soul still not in the studio. Public Enemy get a playout, great production work from the Bomb Squad. Genuine air of menace. Excellent.
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Post by vya on Apr 12, 2020 22:36:15 GMT 1
Waterfront: Nobody but nobody at all needs a Johnny Hates Jazz tribute act. ("Cry", I think by now was on its third release. The followup, then on second release, which is a bit better, "Nature Of Love" is a dead ringer for "Shattered Dreams").
Monie Love: "Grandpa's Party" (Grandpa being Afrika Bambaataa) imaginative and like nothing else in the UK charts. Much more influenced by the growing Afrocentric movements in the US. And while always burnished by a skilful selection of samples (or just backing racks), her energy and enthuisasm goes a long way.
Holly Johnson: Jeez what a rapid decline. First solo single a thing of beauty and genius, aimed at kids, sure, but technocolour and brilliant. Second solo single a bit more of the same, not quite so brightly coloured, but still catchy and theatrical. Third solo single a grimy forgettable dirge.
De La Soul: "Say No Go" is a vast improvement on "Me Myself and I", which was far too gimmicky.
The Pet Shop Boys: "It's Alright": giving the Style Council a lesson in how to cover a house track successfully and more or less credibly
A Guy Called Gerald "Voodoo Ray" - pure, timeless, class.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Apr 14, 2020 10:16:59 GMT 1
Am I misremembering or was Just Keep Rockin' shown 3 times? It had a slow creep up the top 20 and peaked for a fortnight at 11, a real shame it was never a top 10 hit.
With all due respect for what the likes of Stormzy and Dave are doing these days, I think it might just be my favourite UK hip hop record ever. The demand for the single re-peaked after it had left the chart, I think the public quickly recognised it was a classic that ought to have done better. I remember Phillip Schofield had a show on Radio 1 on Thursday evenings where he used to often play it. For a while he would give a copy away each week, they were so sought after.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 16, 2020 17:15:39 GMT 1
At sixes and sevens this week, with the Campbster. Starting with a SAW discovery, oh God, and it's the highest climber, well, of course it is. Sonia. She's risen to the same position as the average IQ of the buyer. I understand that she's actually got quite the voice, but it's buried under distortion and computer backing and all the usual crap that comes from the SAWmill.
Gladys Knight and no Pips. See above.
Charts. Norman Cook, so that's another Housemartin in the charts. This is recorded in advance, there's no audience noise.
"I get the distinct feeling you're going to enjoy this." Monie Love. Heh, don't remember her making Ver Pops in person. This is quite a big rise too. Quite a bit of verve in the performance.
Karyn White. What's the opposite of verve? This brings the party atmos right down. It's Meaningful. And dull.
Breakers. Bette Midler. God almighty. Danny Wilson, still a rubbish band name, but this is almost like they're channelling Fairground Attraction. Quite interesting. De La Soul, with Campbell trying to rap an intro, which is just how you would expect it to sound. This is harder-edged than their debut and a better song, if less immediate.
Beautiful South, again. Legacy of their bit-by-bit rise. They're now at no. 2. Is this the push to the very top of the charts? Can anyone name a Beautiful Souther that's not a Housemartin?
Charts. And Pet Shop Boys, with a load of babies. Big new entry. Backing is interesting but the vocals are a) out of sympathy and b) trite sixth form politics.
Chaka Khan. The world does not need this.
Top ten. No no. 1 for Prince. No. 1 is under siege, big climbs to 12, 3, a big new entry at 5. But still Soul II Soul.
Playout is A Guy Called Gerald, aka Gerald, and this sounds so, so, so, so different to literally everything else that's been on. It's like "Anarchy In The UK" or "Are Friends Electric", it is so out there. Wow.
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Post by vya on Apr 17, 2020 23:04:31 GMT 1
Strange episode, mostly made up of brutally cut video-clips strung together and poorly presented by Brookes and Brambles, who struggle to be heard over the screaming crowd desperately pretending they've not been short changed.
Danny Wilson: well this track is obviously a gimmick, and an overrated and overplayed one (No 3 single from the album - no 92 in the charts - "I Can't Wait" was clearly where the action was, along with its Abba cover B-side of "Knowing Me Knowing You", at a time when Abba were still deeply, intensely, embarrassingly, unfashionable). On the other hand they demonstrate that, only a few months after D-Mob and Jolly Roger, it's now permissable to say "acid" on ToTP repeatedly, so long as you are a folk-rock act from Dundee.
Waterfront: one of only two other acts in the studio, and I had quite forgotten how even their appearance was Johnny Hates Jazz Mark II. Can't believe the quantity of teenage girls screaming at them, for all that the lyrics are clearly written in the person of an older man who is clearly somewhat fond of teenage girls.
Otherwise, hmm, such a mixed bag of brief video excerpts. The other side of the Norman Cook record, the one with Billy Bragg on, would have been greatly preferable. This one: yuk.
My guess, on the basis of the evidence provided so far, would be now that the "Miami Sound Machine" credit has finally been removed from after "Gloria Estefan", we can wave goodbye to the characteristic and appealling and specific Latino influences in the music, and instead say hello to bland FM radio ballads. A pity.
I really like both "Wind Beneath My Wings" and Bette Midler's impassioned interpretation of it. The music is late 80s/early 90s studio production by numbers, but good quality production by numbers. And her voice and the lyrics rise above its faults.
"Liberian Girl": no, please, stop it now. There were too many singles released from this album one (maybe even two...) years ago. No need for this.
LA Mix are an underrated act (well, a bit), both for the more experimental and groundbreaking mash-ups they did earlier on (of which the hit "Check This Out" is probably the most memorable), and then as they developed into more like a Beatmasters/Coldplay production-led act showcasing various vocallists. Later singles like, especially, "Mysteries of Love" and to a lesser extent "We Shouldn't Hold Hands In The Dark" were good things in a dark world. Alas, "Get Loose", the only one to actually crack the top 40, is minor in comparison and moderately annoying.
"Days" - Kirsty MacColl. It's a song by the Kinks, sung by Kirsty MacColl. Of course it's a delight. Wish her own material would get more notice though...
Against my will rather I have to admit that "A New Flame" is a bit of a cut above much of Simply Red's standard fare. Good rhythms and structure, and the theatrical artifice in Hucknall's vocals work surpisingly well.
I'm not at all surprised that Bobby Brown has finally broken thru big-time, just that it took so long. Not at all impressed by this track though, though at least we don't get to see the bit of the video in which Donald Trump makes a cameo.
De La Soul good. Soul II Soul better.
Something has gone wrong with the way ToTP is being put together now. Someone needs to pull their finger out and sort it out. A savage video jukebox with naff acts in the room and screams that drown out the presenters is not what is needed.
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Post by o on Apr 18, 2020 10:35:57 GMT 1
Norman Cook hey, I also remember him as Pizzaman with a half decent song as well?
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Post by vya on Apr 18, 2020 11:24:43 GMT 1
20.07.89 a bit better, but for one thing (see below).
"London Nights": I'd quite forgotten just how entertaining the London Boys (clearly not from London) were. Not sure yet whether they're a one trick pony or if they will reveal some diversity of talent with other strings to their bow than the peppy uptempo Hi-NRG number. But this is fun.
"Cha Cha Heels" isn't really terribly good, Kitt's purring notwithstanding, but it's really all about the beat. Just about manages to out-camp "London Nights", I think.
"Grandpa's Party" - absolutely fantastic record (and performance). A great re-discovery.
"Swing The Mood" - Gary Davies says ominously he thinks this has a good chance of going to number one. In difficult times, 30 years later, it's a worthwhile reminder that all things, even Jive Bunny, pass.
"Choice?" - The absolute stand-out thing on this record is Sylvia Tella's vocals. Heart and soul. More of this, please. A bit more Latin-tempered than past Blow Monkeys tracks, but they have done much better ("Slaves No More" is a later superior track also featuring Tella). Lyrics are well-intentioned but naive: their intense Euroscepticism (best bit of evidence: the final 30 secs of the video of the fantastic "It Pays To Belong") that accompanied their anti-Thatcherism has largely been forgotten...
"On Our Own": so this time we do get to see Trump outside his gold-plated tower staring up at the famous vacuous and probably unpleasant sleb of the moment, Bobby Brown, on an enormous screen overhead and being mesmerised by it. Can't say nobody was warned...
"Let It Roll": a project of Raze (as well as Doug Lazy), but the BBC choose not to credit them. Somewhat minor, only on because the charts are slow-moving and there are only three new entries. It is no "Break 4 Love".
"Ain't Nobody": actually a fairly tasteful and not entirely pointless remix. Classy in its mid-80s way.
"You'll Never Stop Me Loving You": stalker lyrics. Neither very good nor intended to be. I suppose one can say it fits into a clear British tradition of moulding a light entertainment star. Sonia's smiling is at least as important as her singing.
"Edie (Ciao Baby)" - the one song by the Cult that isn't a moronic over-the-top attack-cum-dirge that bludgeons its listeners into submission. Again there's a naivety about the lyrics, but the melody is attractive in places.
So what's wrong with this episode? Again, they are omitting the most vital and exciting and innovative record in the charts, by quite a long way. And it's at no 12 now. And it's no more outside the mainstream than Monie Love. And the performer is from Manchester, and it has a video (we got a short excerpt of it on the playout two weeks earlier). And it evidently has more appeal than these new entries at 39 and 36 that got on... It seems a big oversight, as far as these things go: Voodoo, Voodoo, Ray, Ray....
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 18, 2020 11:29:22 GMT 1
13/7. Bruno Brookes and Jakki Brambles, a new face to me. Danny Wilson with a couple of chaps on stage who seem to be in the Bez role. The music is far too quiet. They must have miked up the crowd. Or boozed them up, they're very enthusiastic.
I heard a lovely rumour, Bette Midler had a tumour. Jakki Brambles was crying at the film, apparently. I'm vomiting at the thought.
De La Soul. This is really, really, really good. A mix of the urgency of the Bomb Squad and the languid understated delivery of DLS. Looks like the success of "Me Myself And I" caught them by surprise as this video is basically a cut-up job.
Charts. Blow Monkeys are in, what IS a blow monkey?
Michael Jackson. The chatting in the video is better than the song. Is this a tacit acceptance that it's basically a release solely to make a few extra bob and hide its shiteness?
Waterfront. This song would have been gangbusters in 1984, done by Paul Young. Too little too late. Oh, it is a big hit in the US, not surprised.
Gloria Estevan. What IS this? I really, really, really can't be doing with this. Only interesting things is Brambles makes the point that there's no MSM any more.
Chartesques. Norman Cook, with Texas Tom in a corner of the video. Also Lofty from Eastenders and Janice Long. This is not Housemartiny. Not quite sure what to make of it. Is this some blatant cashin on a current fad?
Kirsty MacColl. Awwwwwwwww, this is so, so, so sweet. Why is this stuck in the lower reaches of the chart?
LA Mix with Jazzie Not B But P. Bit of bad luck for her. She's got a very fast flow. Quite good but it doesn't have the sort of hook to stay in the memory.
Simply sh*te. No no no no no. This is the musical equivalent of drawing nails across a blackboard. I cannot STAND this. I once had to walk out of a WH Smiths because it came on in the background.
Top 10. Highest new entry is Bobby Brown and I assume he's only getting the playout. Brambles is keen to reference the charts, saying Beautiful South never made the top. Soul II Soul remain on top. They haven't been in the studio to perform at all, I think. Bit like this episode.
Brown is on the playout. It sounds so anaemic after Soul II Soul. So samey.
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